Category Archive For "Entrepreneurship"

The following blog post is written by Niranjan Bala, a participant in one of MapBox’s learnups. Using what he had learned at the learnup, he came up with an interesting project. Here is a detailed first hand account of his experience. Being a techie to the core and not much of a social guy, I …

It is a common misapprehension that hackathons are only for developers or coders. I want to disabuse you of this notion! As you are aware, hackathons are a cruicible of innovation where people from disparate backgrounds and skill sets come together to build a product. It is often the case though that many teams tend …

If you were to ask a person off the street what an average hackathon attendee would look like, the answer would almost invariably be that the participant would be a scruffy looking sleep deprived dude in his early twenties. But this stereotype would be rudely shattered in the Oracle haC++ that we held in Bangalore …

What is Venturesity and its Campus Associate Program Venturesity plays a pivotal role in bridging the gap in the product ecosystem. Instead of lamenting about the dearth of talent, Venturesity takes up the role of creating professionally sound talent. A new age online university, Venturesity provides interactive live classes. At Venturesity, it’s ILOC (Instructor Led …

When cofounder of Y-Combinator Paul Graham’s interview to The Information was published, it immediately hit the headlines with his statements like “God knows what you would do to get 13 year old girls interested in computers. I would have to stop and think about that” and “We can’t make these women look at the world …

Internet has empowered businesses and has helped them go global from being just local. While business owners are looking up various ways of advertising on the web, PPC or Pay per Click stands out to be a unique technique of getting traffic to a particular website. Going by Wikipedia’s definition, PPC is “the amount spent …

Companies at different stages of their business are looking for different types of people. Of course, the cliché ? more risk, more reward ? does not fit for all. It is important to understand your skillset before you choose your path. Sometimes a high-flying executive from a blue chip company who gets enamored by “early stage companies” may not necessarily …